Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?

The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man.